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Chad Underkoffler

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Chad Underkoffler
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Chad Underkoffler is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

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Chad Underkoffler had done some work as a game designer for both Atlas Games and Steve Jackson Games in the early 2000s.[1]: 424  Underkoffler has published his PDQ indie role-playing games through his company Atomic Sock Monkey Press, including the fairytale RPG, The Zorcerer of Zo,[1]: 424  and Truth & Justice in the superhero genre.[citation needed] He also designed the horror fantasy game Dead Inside.[2] Evil Hat Productions brought on Underkoffler to help with The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game in 2007.[1]: 424  Leonard Balsera became the Lead System Developer for Dresden Files and Underkoffler took on the role of Lead Setting Developer, building on the work done by Genevieve Cogman.[1]: 425  Underkoffler designed Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies (2009) for Evil Hat, which was a more traditional type of role-playing game than some of the other games the company had been releasing.[1]: 425 

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ^ Hsu, Huan (2004-03-04). "The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth; In the world created by role-playing gamer Chad Underkoffler, nice guys finish first". Washington City Paper. p. 29. ProQuest 362530386.
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